Satoshi Nakamoto should be richer than Bill Gates.

[chixka000]

Of course he can be richer than Bill Gates if he only chooses to stay and lead bitcoin users. Yet why did he instead decides to become anonymous? For some reason he dont want to

[Teraboy]

Of course he can be richer than Bill Gates if he only chooses to stay and lead bitcoin users. Yet why did he instead decides to become anonymous? For some reason he dont want to

Give me more explanation about your answer. as we can see the bitcoin is for everyone. In fact, you can read the market capitalization of bitcoin.
Bill gates have over thousands billion. and it is not comparable with bitcoin.

[jakelyson]

I've heard something about this in another thread, but I forget the link. He said, sathosi nakamoto has never spent a single bitcoin. He destroyed the private key before he mine bitcoin. I think this decision make sathosi nakamoto a wisest man in the crypto world.

How did he become the wisest man when he destroyed his private key of his wallet? Isn't that the worst thing you can do in crypto world? Even if he does not want to spend his bitcoins, he should still store his private keys in a safe place

[cellard]

We don't know if satoshi is dead or if satoshi was a group of people or if satoshi still owns all the keys... i could go on.

The fact is, nobody will never know what happened to the person or group of people named satoshi, we can only speculate.

[jacafbiz]

Do we even know the actual amount of Bitcoin Satoshi is controlling, if the 1 million figure is true then it is just a matter of time, I can see Bitcoin in $10,000 range soon, when that time arrives, he is going to be sitting on $10 billion. The more Bitcoin price increases the richer he becomes.

[deisik]

Do we even know the actual amount of Bitcoin Satoshi is controlling, if the 1 million figure is true then it is just a matter of time, I can see Bitcoin in $10,000 range soon, when that time arrives, he is going to be sitting on $10 billion. The more Bitcoin price increases the richer he becomes

It is not a good idea overall to count money in someone else's pocket

Other than that, there was a link posted numerous times across the forum to the piece of investigation where someone did the dirty job and actually counted Satoshi's bitcoins. It turns out that he has around 980k bitcoins all in all, and they are all sitting idly since times immemorial. Even if Bitcoin is going to hit 10k dollars per coin one day, those bitcoins are unlikely to move anywhere, so it may be fun to assess how much it makes in US dollars but that would be idle curiosity mostly

[Graphics]

We all know Bill Gates the owner of microsoft is the most richest man in the world. Total wealth of $80 Billion US dollars. While satoshi nakamoto the owner and founder of bitcoin only have $1 billion US dollars, Why he cant just generate indefinite amount of bitcoins for him and exchange it to real cash, right? Any thoughts?

The total bitcoin capitalization is ~$19 Billions.
Gates worth > $80 Billions.

I don't know how you decide about who's richer

[PokerFace3]

We all know Bill Gates the owner of microsoft is the most richest man in the world. Total wealth of $80 Billion US dollars. While satoshi nakamoto the owner and founder of bitcoin only have $1 billion US dollars, Why he cant just generate indefinite amount of bitcoins for him and exchange it to real cash, right? Any thoughts?

The total bitcoin capitalization is ~$19 Billions.
Gates worth > $80 Billions.

I don't know how you decide about who's richer

Yes, OP is just impractical with his thoughts. Satoshi never planned up for pre-mine or anything like that. But he was a sole miner in beginning days of bitcoins hence he got chances to hold some (believed so) 1 millions bitcoins.

But people misunderstand this like Satoshi had created some new money so he could get what ever amounts of it he prefers. It will not be possible to have all ~19 billions bitcoin by one person even for Satoshi, the creator of it. Bitcoin value is just backed by its community so if one single person holds all the coins then there would be no possibilities for this much capitalization.

[pooya87]

Do we even know the actual amount of Bitcoin Satoshi is controlling, if the 1 million figure is true then it is just a matter of time, I can see Bitcoin in $10,000 range soon, when that time arrives, he is going to be sitting on $10 billion. The more Bitcoin price increases the richer he becomes.

"a matter of time" for what exactly?!
and that is the problem though, most of us have not yet understood what bitcoin is an why it was created. Satoshi has some amount of bitcoin end of discussion. saying it is worth XXX dollar means you still don't know why he created bitcoin.
it wasn't for the price value or to become rich in USD sense.

[edden]

I think, I must be open and tell the truth but there is some thing stoping me telling the truth. It is all about the Bitcoin invention and its mysterious inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi mined 985050 Bitcoin at the beginning including the Genesis Block. People are interested to know and understand the motive of Satoshi Nakamoto, why he invented Bitcoin ? The truth is far enthrall than a blockbuster movie. I am thinking to invest few millions to create a legendary movie about Satoshi Nakamoto and the Cypherpunks and their link to government's secret service. You can not hide the truth for eternity. Truth will prevail over crook nation-state secret service. Satoshi is watching like the Eagle from far above the horizon and soon will appear on the white cloud like  Bitcoin Jesus. Do not misunderstand about Bitcoin Jesus. Roger Ver is not the real Bitcoin Jesus but an impostor. The real Satoshi Nakamoto knows what he is doing and how he will complete his mission. Therefore you cannot even imagine his capacity. He is busy to bring a Clockchain back in the Blockchain.

[deepocean]

Satoshi has only bitcoin. if bitcoin is translated into cash, satoshi will can be richest than bill gates. But if satoshi translete to cash, bitcoin will may dump

[btvGainer]

Satoshi kept his identity anonymous since the very beginning.It is clear his objective was not to make money or get fame.
He could have sold his bitcoin holding much earlier in 2013 and invested somewhere else but he didn't.
His ambitions seems to be different than Bill gate's.
But you never know where bitcoin would reach in future.If it reach $10k, Satoshi would be 10x richer than today.

[kynaz]

lol, this is the basic about bitcoins, Satoshi Nakamoto just found bitcoin but he didn't own it, that's the fairness in bitcoin, if he can make how many bitcoins he want , so the price isn't like this . Like you found something, but others owned it later . hahaha

[gabmen]

lol, this is the basic about bitcoins, Satoshi Nakamoto just found bitcoin but he didn't own it, that's the fairness in bitcoin, if he can make how many bitcoins he want , so the price isn't like this . Like you found something, but others owned it later . hahaha

Yeah and i don't think its even right to compare these two. Though nakamoto finding bitcoin may very well be one of the most important events and he may also be among those people we all would have to thank for in the future. As now he's not yet on bill gate's yard in the eyes of people

[Pettuh4]

Of course he can be richer than Bill Gates if he only chooses to stay and lead bitcoin users. Yet why did he instead decides to become anonymous? For some reason he dont want to

It's his decision to remain anonymous and so let's respect that. About being richer than bill gates I don't think that's his priority and even if he wants to be richer than him he doesn't necessarily have to generate more bitcoins but then Bitcoin value CB move by just two zeros and he'd be richer than gates.

[The_Dark_Knight]

We all know Bill Gates the owner of microsoft is the most richest man in the world. Total wealth of $80 Billion US dollars. While satoshi nakamoto the owner and founder of bitcoin only have $1 billion US dollars, Why he cant just generate indefinite amount of bitcoins for him and exchange it to real cash, right? Any thoughts?

He cannot instant mine that many coins the code does not allow it, and even if he created a piece of code that did that no one will accept that version of bitcoin but don’t worry satoshi is already richer than bill gates the price still has not adjust it yet that is all.

[pitham1]

Satoshi kept his identity anonymous since the very beginning.It is clear his objective was not to make money or get fame.
He could have sold his bitcoin holding much earlier in 2013 and invested somewhere else but he didn't.
His ambitions seems to be different than Bill gate's.
But you never know where bitcoin would reach in future.If it reach $10k, Satoshi would be 10x richer than today.

For all you know, he might be holding on to his bitcoins and may reveal himself in the future.
But looking at his actions until now, I feel fame and fortune do not enthrall him.

[fathur.aza]

I know that Bill Gates is the world's richest even his $ 80 billion fortune AS.tapi Bill Gates has Nakamoto stosi competitors that only $ 1 billion, his wealth distance away.
satosi Nakamoto produce the infinite value of bitcoin's her only redeem it with real money,.

[n0ne]

Both are equally important and who is richest doesn't matter. What they innovated matters, so both has created a big change in the entire system. In my opinion I think without Bill Gates Satoshi could have not got the chance of making this innovation. Because Bill Gates made a revolution in the Computer and networking and Satoshi made it within that. So each need to be complemented than comparing.

[emezh10]

We all know Bill Gates the owner of microsoft is the most richest man in the world. Total wealth of $80 Billion US dollars. While satoshi nakamoto the owner and founder of bitcoin only have $1 billion US dollars, Why he cant just generate indefinite amount of bitcoins for him and exchange it to real cash, right? Any thoughts?

I think yeah but there are many possibilities that happen this year that pass, Satoshi Nakamoto is founder of bitcoin maybe on the small pump he sell his all bitcoin there's a many possibilities but for me Satoshi Nakamoto is legend because he start the new way of making money and a new money that is called cryptocurrency.